noun
A citizen or national of the United States of America.
Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation... is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen.
...the British ruling class obviously could not admit to themselves that their usefulness was at an end. Had they done that they would have had to abdicate. For it was not possible for them to turn themselves into mere bandits, like the American millionaires, consciously clinging to unjust privileges and beating down opposition by bribery and tear-gas bombs. After all, they belonged to a class with a certain tradition, they had been to public schools where the duty of dying for your country, if necessary, is laid down as the first and greatest of the Commandments.
Any inhabitant of the Americas.
A citizen or inhabitant of British America.
An indigenous inhabitant of the Americas.
The Americans believe that all creatures have souls.
Within a few months the ‘slave Alexandre’ had been successfully transformed into what, across the Channel, was called a ‘blackamoor dandy’. Parisians preferred the more politely euphemistic term ‘American’. ]
An inhabitant of French or Spanish New World colonies.
1839, Washington Irving, 'National Nomenclature', The Knickerbocker In France, when I have announced myself as an American, I have been supposed to belong to one of the French colonies; in Spain, to be from Mexico, or Peru, or some other Spanish-American country.
adj
Of, from, or pertaining to the United States of America, its people, or its culture.
He married an American woman in order to get an American passport.
Thanksgiving is an American tradition.
Of, from, or pertaining to the Americas.
This is pure American powder from the foothills of Colombia.
Of, from, or pertaining to British North America.
Of, from, or pertaining to the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas.
Able to be exercised on any date between its issue and expiry.
All of these trade on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Most of the contracts are European. An exception is the OEX contract on the S&P 100, which is American.
Multi-dimensional option pricing becomes an important topic in financial markets (Franker et al., 2008). Among which, the American-type derivative (e.g. the Bermudan option) pricing is a challenging problem.
name
A township in Allen County, Ohio, United States.